Maximizing measures in hyperbolic dynamics
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Warwick
Department Name: Mathematics
Abstract
In the study of dynamical systems, the long term asymptotic behaviour is often best understood in terms of properties of invariant measures. In the particular setting of Lagrangian flows, Mane and Mather formulated a number of important questions about those measures whose integrals maximized a particular integral. As part of a general theory, one can ask similar questions about quite diverse dynamical systems. In the particular case of hyperbolic (or chaotic) dynamical systems, we can consider a natural class of measures called Gibbs measures, whose study originated in the mathematical theory of Statistical Mechanics, and the work of Ruelle and Sinai. This proposal relates to how maximizing measures for typical functions for these hyperbolic systems can be approximated by these better behaved Gibbs measures. This has important implications for understanding the quite complicated, but important, maximizing measures in terms of much simpler Gibbs measures.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Mark Pollicott (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Baker S
(2020)
Equidistribution results for sequences of polynomials
in Journal of Number Theory
Baker S
(2020)
On the complexity of the set of codings for self-similar sets and a variation on the construction of Champernowne
in Advances in Mathematics
Baker S
(2020)
Two bifurcation sets arising from the beta transformation with a hole at 0
in Indagationes Mathematicae
Baker S
(2019)
Exceptional digit frequencies and expansions in non-integer bases
in Monatshefte für Mathematik
Aimino R
(2021)
Thermodynamic Formalism - CIRM Jean-Morlet Chair, Fall 2019
Description | The grant was successful in making substantial progress on properties of maximizing measures. This stimulated research in related areas by other researchers, with connections to analysis, geometry, dynamical systems, |
Exploitation Route | The RA went on to told a lectureship in Surrey. The work on the grant has stimulated research by many other authors. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Transport |
URL | http://www.surrey.ac.uk/maths/people/ian_morris/#publications |